Last week I was at Dreamforce (the Salesforce.com mega-conference) promoting my recently released Pluralsight course, Force.com for Developers. Salesforce.com made a HUGE effort to focus on developers this year and I had a blast working at the Pluralsight booth in… Read More ›
Month: September 2012
Versioning ASP.NET Web API Services Using HTTP Headers
I’ve been doing some work with APIs lately and finally had the chance to dig into the ASP.NET Web API a bit more. While it’s technically brand new (released with .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012), the Web API has… Read More ›
Book Review: Cloudonomics–The Business Value of Cloud Computing
Last week I read Cloudonomics by Joe Weinman and found it to be the most complete, well-told explanation of cloud computing’s value proposition that I’ve ever read. Besides the content itself, I was blown away by the depth of research… Read More ›
Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
Scott Hanselman wrote an interesting post called Everything’s Broken and Nobody’s Upset this weekend, and it reminded me of the classic, profound Louis CK bit called Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy. While Scott’s post was reasonable, I’m an optimist and… Read More ›
Book Review: Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
It’s hard to write technical books nowadays. First off, technology changes so fast that there’s nearly a 100% chance that by the time a book is published, its subject has undergone some sort of update. Secondly, there is so much… Read More ›